A straggling, branching, rhizomatous perennial herb, erect or decumbent, up to c. 0.5 m tall, scabrous-pilose, stems leafy. Leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile, up to 12 x 3 cm, elliptic to narrowly ovate, margins subentire to serrate. Heads solitary, terminal, pedunculate, up to c. 4 cm across the expanded rays. Outer involucral bracts herbaceous, more or less oblong or elliptic, obtuse or subacute, scabrid, inner bracts papery, mostly with broad rounded tips but variable on the same plant. Rays and disc yellow. Achenes c. 6 mm long, narrowly oblong-obovate, thinly appressed-hairy, crowned with a very small laciniate cupule.